New Delhi prepares for fourth annual Pride event

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It is wonderful to see such progress. There is still a long way to go towards equality in India, but it sounds as though things are moving in the right direction. Hopefully the advances happening in Nepal will have an impact on other countries in the region. Progress is being made in Thailand also which would be a key country in S E Asia and would impact on neighbouring countries if meaningful equality legislation such as same sex marriage were introduced.

It has been “read down” by the Delhi Court so that it does not affect consenting adults, which amounts to the same thing. So far as we know no one has put forward a valid legal argument in support of the Appeal that rebuts the very clear legal decision by excellent judges.

Let’s also look forward to the day when the rest of S E Asia’s former colonies, Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka get rid of this odious section. Though Singapore has, but only for heterosexual anal and oral acts. You don’t get a clearer act of discrimination than that!!

To Peter Tatchell. That’s what I thought from the day one after delhi’s court’s decision….. There were so many stupids who thought that homosexuality now is legal in all states of India. They even doesn’t know that such states as Kashmir and Jammu have own criminal codes independently from federal penal code of India… O, boy….